We use Asana for software development. It works great overall, however we have one issue: to refer to tasks from commit messages, we currently need to use Asana’s task IDs - and we copy them from the task’s URL. Not pretty. Also, we are concerned that at some point, the way Asana manages task IDs will change, thus rendering previously created references to tasks useless.
What would help us greatly would be a feature that
- allows us to set a task ID “template” for each project (e.g. “HR-#”);
- automatically generates task IDs for tasks created in such a project (“HR-1”, “HR-2” etc.);
- displays these IDs with the rest of the task’s information.
Benefits:
- no more copying of task IDs from the URL;
- task IDs feel more permanent;
- task IDs can contain information on which project they belong to and are therefore less opaque.